inconsequent

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To what inconsequent polysyllabic question of its readers did Slate Dot Com return a monosyllabic negative answer?

From Slate • Jun. 27, 2018

Here, you could argue, is the very justification of the novel itself – the education of our imaginations not by precept but through the inconsequent palpability of art, what Henry James called its "irresponsible plasticity".

From The Guardian • Oct. 8, 2010

Among the couths, even the inconsequent are competent.

From Time Magazine Archive

Despite the Bertie Wooster inconsequent twists of a statement like that, there is nothing soft about George Bush.

From Time Magazine Archive

A butterfly sped past us on the terrace, silly and inconsequent.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier